Washing-machine



(No Model.)

G. F. DUNNING.

WASHING MACHINE.

No.. 376,238. Patented Jan. 10,1888.

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GEORGE F. DUNNING, OF DEEP WATER, MISSOURI.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,238, dated January l0, 1888` Application tiled March 9, 1887.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. DUNNING, of Deep Water,in the county of Henry and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved VVashing-Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention' relates to machines adapted for washing clothes, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and effective machine of this` class rwhich may be operated with economy of time and labor for thoroughly cleaning the clothes, and is arranged to give easy access to all its parts for handling the clothes or washingliuid and for cleaning the machine when the work is finished.

The invention consists in certain Vnovel features of construction and combinations of parts of the washing-machine,all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, `forming a part of this specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front view of my improved washing-machine, with the clothesholding tub and upperrubber in vertical section. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the machine; and Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view in section on the line x x, Fig. 1.

The frame of the washingmachine consists, mainly, of a suitable base, A, two opposite side pieces or standards, B C, a head-piece or crossbar, D, which is hinged atb to the standard B, and is slotted at cl to receive a tenon, o, formed ou the upper end of the standard C, and a pin or key, E, passed through hole in the tenon c, above the head-bar D, locks said bar firmlyin place to give substantial support to the upper rotary rubber and its operating mechanism, presently explained. About at the center of the frame a cross-bar, F, is fitted to the opposite standards, B G, and, preferably, by letting its opposite ends into notches Serial No. 230,236. (No model.)

In the center of the cross-bars F G there is journaled a short upright shaft, I, t0 which is fixed above the bar G a four-armed metal frame or spider, J, onto which the tub Hrests, and to the bottom of the tub cleats K K are fastened by screws or otherwise, and so as to t between the arms of the frame J, to lcause the tub to be turned as the frame J and its shaft I are rotated by means of a pinion, L, which meshes into a semicireular rack, m, formed at the periphery of a wheel or plate, M, which is fixed to a short shaft, N, journaled in the cross-bars F G of the frame. To this shaft N, or to the wheel or plate M, or both, is fixed the lower bar, O, of a lever-frame, the upper bar, P, of which is lixed to a wheel, R, which is fast to a shaft, S, journaled in the framehead bar D. In the bar D, and in a bowed bearing-plate, t, fixed to the under side of the bar, there is'journaled a shaft, T, which carries iixedly a pinion, U, which meshes with rubber IV and the bearing-plate t, normally forces the rubber down onto the clothes placed in the tub. The pinion U will in practice be made long enough to allow considerable range of vertical movement of the rubber without disconnecting the pinion from the rack V, which operates it.

The upper and lower bars, O P, of the leverframe are connected by a cross round or bar, o, which is or may be grasped by the operator in using the machine, and the connection of the upper bar, P, to the round o isloose, allowing disconnection of the bar P from the round when the uppercross-bar, D,isswung over back- Ward on its hinge b to carry the upper rubber, W, upward and over clear of the tub H, to place the clothes in the tub to be washed, or to remove the washed clothes vfrom the tub, or for allowing washing-Huid to be placedin or refmoved from the tub, or for permitting the tub IOO preferably disposed at various angles to give the best rubbing effect on the clothes.

The operation of the machine is as follows: \Vhen the tub H is placed on the spider-frame J and the clothes, with a suitable washing tluid, are placed in the tub, the crossbar D, with the rubber \V, will be swung down and fastened by the pin E, and when the leverframeOPo is moved first to one side and then to the other side, or is reeiprocated through an are somewhat less than a half-circle, the arrangement ot` gearing L m U V will cause the tnb and upper rubber, H XV, to be rotated in different directions at each half-stroke of the lever-frame, and the motions of the tub and rubber will be reversed each time the motion of the lever is reversed; consequently the clothes will be most thoroughly agitated and rubbed to very quickly remove the dirt from them, and the operation may be performed without greatly fatiguing the person working the lever.

Should the upper rubber, XV, be made considerably smaller than the diameter of the tub, the washing-Huid and clothes may be put in and removed from the tub without swinging the cross-bar O and rubber XV over on the hinge I), as will readily be understood.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a washing-machine, the combination,

with a supporting-fraaie, of a shaft, I, jonrnaled therein and provided with a pinion on its lower end and a spider on its upper end for Supporting a tub, a segmental rack meshing with the said pinion, a rnbber-shaftjournaled in the upper part ol' the frame and provided with a pinion on its upper end, a wheel having an internal rack meshing with the pinion on the rubber-shalt, arms or bars secured to the segmental rack and to the wheel having the internal rack, and a round or bar connecting the said arms or bars, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. rlhe combination, in a washing-machine, of asuitableframe.ashaft, I, jonrnaled therein, a spide frame, J, ixed to the shaft, a tub, H, having cleats or retainers K engaging the frame J, a pinion, L, on shal't I, a wheel or plate, M, having an external rack, m, engaging said pinion, a shaft, T, journaled on the frame, a rubber, \V, on shat't T and adapted for rotation in the tub H, a pinion, U, on shaft T, a wheel, R, having an internal rack, V, engaging pinion U, and a lever-frame, O P 0, connected to the rack-wheel M R, all arranged for operation substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE F. DUNNING.

Vitnesses:

U. B. MCNEMAR, J AMES FLANAGAN. 

